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Claude Almansi

said
about 1 year ago

Thank you, Rieann.

Just one question: why is it possible to leave a comment on some posts but not on others?

Best

Claude

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Charlotte- retired

said
12 months ago

Hi Claude -

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! Before, comments on blog posts automatically closed after 21 days. I have changed this so that now all blog posts are open for comments for as long as people might want to comment.

Thanks!Charlotte

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Claude Almansi

said
12 months ago

Thank you!

Claude

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Ronan Sharma

said
6 months ago

Thank you for sharing rieanne

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Jake Finn

said
6 months ago

Why we can't comment on all the blog posts?

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Claude Almansi

said
6 months ago

Good question, Jake. Just a surmise: lack of staff.

If you wish to comment on a blog post but can't, you can always discuss such a post in this forum, linking to it.

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Claude

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rasisingh

said
3 months ago

hii

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Stephanie Rendon

said
2 months ago

how do you indicate that a speaker is quoting another person? should I use parenthesis? or slanted quotation marks or straight quotation marks?`` pls help!

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Claude Almansi

said
2 months ago

Thank you for your question, Stephanie.

If you are subtitiling within a team, the team may have more detailed guidelines than the general Amara ones. What follows is based on a few years of collaborative subtitling.

I use straight double quotes, but you could use slanted quotes if you prefer: they are supported in the simple text used in subtitles.

If it is a long quotation, spanning several captions, watchers need to be reminded they are still within the quotation, so I use italics which you can produce via an asterisk before and after. Alternatively, you can repeat the opening quotes at the beginning of each subtitle, with end quotes at the end of the quoted passage. Like this: